PSA is Pure Undefiled TRUTH = God's TRUTH = Isaiah chapter 53
Without Isaiah 53 and the Cross unto Death, the Gospel does not exist
To avoid/disparage/deny this TRUTH is unbelief
I agree with you that "Without Isaiah 53 and the Cross unto Death, the Gospel does not exist", only because they do exist as fulfillment of God's promises as early as at the fall of man.
I simply disagree that our Father punished our Lord, especially so with intense emotional anger-wrath. It was our Father's will and predetermined plan that His own Son would willingly die for our sins but He did not kill Him. Our Father delivered Him up to evil men under the leading of Satan who would kill Him, but the decision to die was upon our Lord. He is the One who offered His life for our sins. No one took it from Him. Even in the garden on the night of His arrest, He firmly decided to lay aside His own will to die on a cross according to our Father's will. And through this single act of righteous (obeying our Father's will to offer His own life for our sins), the free gift of righteousness (God credits our faith in Jesus Christ as our righteousness-this is the free gift, no law of works involved. ref, Rom 4:4-5, Eph 2:8-9) came to all men (for Christ our Lord died for everyone, each man ref, Heb 2:9 ), resulting in justification of life (the complete forgiveness and forgetting of sins, our sins have been expunged) (ref, Rom 5:18, Eph 2:8-9).
You cannot provide contextual scriptural evidence in the New Covenant of the Bible, nor examples in the Old Covenant where sin offerings were punished by God or shown God's wrath. Repentance, confession of sin, and a sin offering averted God's wrath. At no time was the sin offering the recipient of God's wrath.
In the Old Covenant the sinners were commanded to bring their own sacrifice for sin, confessing their sin of why it was dying, and it was killed for those sins, and the sacrifice had to be according to God's specifications of being unblemished. And all this so that they could live covenantally in relationship with God.
In the establishment of His New Covenant, God is the One who supplies His own unblemished Lamb for the sinners, He confessed that He laid all of our sins upon His Lamb (Isa 53:6), and it was the sinners who were to kill God's Lamb for their sins (Isa 53:7-8, Acts 2:23). And now, under God's New Covenant, anyone who confesses with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believes in their heart that God raised him from the dead will be saved. (Rom 10:9)
The punishment our Lord received was from the hands of wicked men under the leading of the devil. God foreknew what was going to happen (Acts 2:23), and He delivered His Son over to them to be the means of our salvation. And even though God foreknew what they would do to His Son, it pleased Him to turn His Son over to them, for His life was made an offering for the guilt of our sin; and His Son would see His offspring; He would resurrect and give us eternal life; and the will of God prospers in His hands. Our Lord looked upon the labor of His soul and is satisfied (He has no regrets); He took away our sins in His offering of His life, and in doing so He justified us (Rom 5:9).
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
Yes, our Lord suffered at the hands of evil men who thought God was punishing Him, and yet it were they who were punishing Him.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement/punishment for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
Yes, even though our Lord was being punished by evil men, it was according to God's will that it would be the means for the healing of mankind.
The Hebrew word מוּסָר mûsâr (moo-sawr) used in Isa 53:5 means chastisement not punishment. In Hebrew it means instruction, training, correction given by parents upon their children, all of these to complete-perfect them. Chastisement includes learning by suffering. One can perfect their son by causing him to suffer to one degree or another, to teach him something that he might otherwise not learn. We know it as discipline.
Now that Isa 53:5 has been fulfilled, we know God told man ahead of time He would perfect His Son to be the Author of Salvation through experiencing the sufferings that brought us peace with Him. Our Lord's real experiences of humbling Himself to come into our form and living in our human weakness, suffering at the hands of evil men, and offering up His life unto death on account of our sins is what purifies us of our sins and reconciles-restores our relationship to God.
In Hebrews 2:-910 we are informed that God made our Lord, the Author of our salvation "perfect" through suffering.
• "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings"
In Hebrews 5:7-10 we are informed that our Lord "learned obedience through what He suffered", and was "made perfect" by it, becoming the source of salvation.
• "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek”
In Hebrews 7:26-28 we are informed the oath of God "appoints a Son forever who has been perfected".
• "For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected."
The Hebrew understanding of chastisement does not mean penal punishment like us westerners think. Jesus did not suffer God’s vengeance for our sins but suffered to make Him complete/perfect as the Author of our salvation. He is both the Lamb of God that takes away our sins and Great High Priest that represents us forever.
6All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
Yes, we all have turned away from God and serve ourselves.
Unlike the sinners under the Old Covenant who had to bring their own unblemished lamb and confess their sins why the animal was being sacrificed, God provided His Lamb and confessed why He was dying, for the iniquities of us all.
No punishment from God. No wrath from God. Only a demonstration of God's love to use evil mankind to be instrumental in His salvation of mankind.
God Bless
